Radiohead off the road until the new album is finished

Radiohead will not play live again until their new album is finished, Thom Yorke told BBC 6 Music at the Mercury Prize ceremony in London on Tuesday 5 September. The band are going away for the rest of the year, and in his words we're not let out 'til it's done.¹

Yorke was at the Grosvenor House Hotel because his solo album, The Eraser, was on the 12-album shortlist, and he was one of eight shortlisted acts who played on the night, singing “Analyse”. The prize went to Arctic Monkeys for Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

The band have spent the summer playing the new songs, up to a last night at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on 28 August. “Bodysnatchers” and “All I Need” have both been heard, but the album still has no title. NME reports the band are making it with Nigel Godrich, and expects nothing new before 2007.